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Newsletter ideas


 * history piece like the origin of Test cricket or the bodyline series?
 * Perhaps a piece about grassroots cricket in a given country,
 * which could expand on the associate member suggestion above

Reddit articles to promote:
 * Sturge Park ✅ 24/04/2022
 * Israel Haggis ✅ 25/04/2022
 * Maurice Fernandes ✅ 26/04/2022
 * Henry Ellison (priest) ✅ 27/04/2022
 * Alessandro Bonora ✅ 28/04/2022
 * Leg before wicket ✅ 29/04/2022
 * Andy Ganteaume ✅ 30/04/2022
 * Ned Sanders
 * Alfred Hollings
 * County Ground, Taunton

Biography
The son of Christopher Bowen, he was born at Glenmore in Ireland; his elder brother was Charles Bowen, a well-known judge. He was educated in England at Blackheath Proprietary School and King's College, London before entering Trinity College, Cambridge. While studying at Cambridge, Bowen served as president of the Cambridge Union in 1856. After graduating from Cambridge, he was appointed an assistant master at Marlborough College in 1858, and moved to Harrow School in 1859. He was appointed a fellow of Trinity College in the same year as his move to Harrow. As a schoolmaster, Bowen believed that boys must be interested in his lessons and at ease with him. This was in contrast with the grave formality typical of the Victorian era. He was the founder of the "modern side" at Harrow, which gave prominence to subjects other than Latin and Greek. Bowen was the author of the Harrow school song, "Forty Years On", which is still sung today, and to which an extra verse was later added in honour of Winston Churchill. He also wrote many other Harrow School songs along with the then Master in Charge of Music, many of which are sung by the school to this day at occasions known as songs every term. While at Harrow, he was housemaster of The Grove boarding house.

Bowen was considered a pioneer of association football at Harrow, and was an accomplished footballer himself. He played with the Wanderers in the inaugural FA Cup, helping the side reach the final of the competition against the Royal Engineers at The Oval, which the Wanderers won 1–0; they repeated their success in the 1872–73 FA Cup, defeating Oxford University in the final 2–0. He played cricket at first-class level for Hampshire against Sussex at Hove. He failed to score in the match, twice being dismissed by James Lillywhite. His other sporting endeavours expanded to cycling, mountaineering, skating, and walking. Whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge, he walked the 90 miles from Cambridge to Oxford in 26 hours.

At Harrow, he was the first master to identify himself thoroughly with sports and games; and he was involved in the establishment of the English Football Association.

He died at Moux in France whilst on a cycling tour. having seemingly been in perfect health. Cyril Norwood said of him that he had "kept the eternal boy alive within his own breast to the very end".

Hemsted proceeded to Belfast in 1872, where he studied medicine at Queen's College. After completing his medical qualification, he returned to the Newbury area, where he worked as a surgeon.